The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

NEARLY 10000 visitors have been recorded Ut
the Washington monument during the year.
THE AIR CURRENT produced by a railway train
drew 6year-old New Haven boy toward the
track, and be was hit by a car step ana killed.
4 DAYTON (TENN.) NAN is the proud posSessor
of an ear of corn that measures II inches in car
cumference and has "a rows containing 1900
grains.
THERE were recently taken from one of the
mounts near the Ohio river two silver crosses
and thirty silver shoe buckles, the latter bearing
| the French crown and date of 1870.
In Cross county, Arkansas, recently number
of convicts were brought out to be baptized,
and water being scarce 1.-THE minister immersed
them in a barrel of sorghum juice, says local
paper.
Two PRISONERS in the jail at Lockport, N. Y.
carried on a conversation through the bars,
which drifted on to matrimonial affairs, and
| next morning, on being released, they were
| married.
The total daily attendance at the schools OF
| London is reported as 1861. OF these pupils
90, 497 60 to the Anglican schools, 24,055 to the
Board, or public Schools and q, 210 TO the Cath
Ole schools.
CARL LINDERMAN saw a duck swimming on
the river at Paris, Tenn, and fired at it, The
ball glanced up from the water and struck
| Leeper Hicks, who stood on the opposite bank,
|
LoNDoN's Ragged Sunday Schools, which
are declared to be the great means of reaching
and improving the poor children of that city.
are increasing fast in numbers and influence
They now have 10000 scholars and 1900
teachers.
| Two CENTENARIANs have died recently. One
was Clayton Sutherland, who was born in Vir-
ginia in 1884, and lived for seventy years near
| Benton, Ky. The other was Barney Fndley OF
Spring Valley, Ohio who was said to be over
l04 years old
AN OMAHA LAWYER took diamond ring as
| retainer from man accused of grand larceny
On his way to luncheon he slipped into jew
elry store to ask what the diamond was WORTH
| and the jeweler identified the ring as one that
had been stolen from him.
The Mexican policeman puts in twelve hours
of hard work every day for the average wages
| of Sc month. In addition to his other duties
| he is obliged to carry long ladder, which he
| uses in cleaning, filing lighting and afterward
extinguishing all the street lamps on his beat
In HIS autobiography the Rev. Philip Hoffman,
| a German clergyman, who died near Cassel not
long ago. claims that he discovered the art Of
photography in 1888 or six years before Da-
| guerre discovery, but was unable to apply or
utilize it owing to his lack OF knowledge OF
chemistry.
BISHOP PADDOCK, of Massachusetts, thinks
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men in that State are too small, and hopes that
| enlightened public sentiment will bring i'm
provement. OF the salaries of 1856 rectOrs who
reported to him, the highe:t was $4,000, the
| lowest $500, and the average was S1,6?l.
A PROMINENT PHYSICIAN says that children's
school lunches should not be placed in the old
fashioned lunch basket or tin box, as bad odors
always cling to a much used receptacle What
| he recommends is fresh, clean napkin wrapped
neatly round the bread and butter or other ed-
bles, and paSte-board box to hold 1t all.
FIVE Of the leading Indians of the Ceur d
| Alene tribe came into Spokane the other day
and bought new improved threshing machine
| to use on their reservation. The Indians of this
| tribe are among the most peaceable i'll the
| country, and they are all good farmers, using
| the latest inventions in labor-Saving machinery
The SINGULAR FACT is demonstrated that, while
the most rapid cannon shots scarcely attain a
| velocity of 900 metres second-over 800 miles
per hour-meteoriteS are known to penatrate
the air with velocity of 10000, or even $4,000
| metres per second, velocity which raises the
| air Mt once to a temperature of from 10000 to
5000 Cent.
AN exceptionally daring thief broke into
| Kansas City house the other day, He gathered
together an entire outfit of clothing including
underwear then repaired to the bathroom, and
| after taking a bath, dressed himself i'll the
| stolen outfit and departed, His own clothes he
carefully rolled up in bundle and placed in
| the corner of the room.
PHILADELPHIA has been claiming the oldess
commercial traveller in the country in Daniel R.
Wolf; but st. Louis says that G. P. Lindley of
| that city, deserves the honor. Mr.. Lindley is
| nearly 70 wears old has been drummer on the
| road since 1886, is spry as boy, has snow
| white hair and beard, rosy cheeks, keen eyes
can tell more good stories than any of the boys
| and has already Travelled over $4,000 miles in
| 1897
The ship William J. Rotch, of New Bedford,
has just made a remarkable voyage. She left
Philadelphia for Hiogo, Japan, about eleven
| months ago, sailed 81 400 miles in 1877 days, was
| unloaded and reladen, and on June Z started on
the homeward voyage, which she made in $50
days, the distance b5ing II 1877 miles. In the
round trip she sailed almost as far as twice
| around the world in ten months and twenty-five
days, which include the time of lying in port in
Japan.
A PROFESSIONAL PAIL BEARER has been dis
covered in Philadelphia. He is an ex-carpenter
who once when out of job, was asked to be
pail bearer at funeral of an entire stranger
| He accepted. and was paid literally He saw a
business in it, bought a decent suit of black
reads the obituary notices in Mr.. Child'S Ledqer
and goes to funerals. He finds his services
most in demand at the funerals of very old per-
sons who have outlived their companions; and if
| the dead person happens to be an unmarried
woman past middle life.then he is almost certain
of job. He says that he averages two funerals
day, and makes living out of it.
THERE seems to be no bounds to Mssouri's
capabilities in the oldest-living citizen line The
latest product of this truly remarkable State is
Charles Gallitier, of Putnam county, who in
sists that his parents often told him that he was
born twelve years before the signing of the dec
| laration of independence If that's So the old
| gentleman is 1913 years old He is the father of
| eight children, of whom three. he saws were
| born before Gen. Jackson won the battle of New
| Orleans He voted for Gen. Jackson twice and
| has always been a Democrat. He says that he
| has chewed tobacco since he was 10 years old
and has drank enough whisky to start the Mis-
sissippi."
THE NEW GUN which it is proposed to intro
duce into the Italian army is said TO be as
effective as the Lebel gun recently introduced
into the French army 1t is called the Freddi
rifle after its inventor, Capt Freddi, who has
just made known his invention The rifle
weighs but pounds ounces; the bore is 315
| calibre, or triile larger than an ordinary lead
| pencil; the bullet weighs but 225 grains. or half
| the weight Of the Springfield bullet: the charge
| of powder is IS grains which is heavier than tie
Springfield, and the muzZle velocity is 164Ofeet
a second 300 feet greater than that OF the
! Springfield. A soldier can carry 800 cartridge
| fire twenty-four rounds in minute.
THE CASE of Poitras against Lebeau is one of
the most remarkable ever argued in Canada.
Poitras, farmer, near Montreal, one August